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From: gaynor@topaz.rutgers.edu (Silver)
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Subject: Re: Improvement Suggestion for Gnu Emacs online documentation
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Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 14:36:48 EDT
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So many people are blissfully ignorant of GNU's help facilities.
They're not advertised enough when they need to be.

I would suggest two changes for your (collective) consideration.
First, devote a larger portion of the startup message to help.  I
would imagine something along the lines of:

  "C-h" - help - the help prefix
  "C-h a" - apropos - give information on a keyword
  "C-h k" - keys - describe the function run by a key sequence
  "C-h f" - function - describe a function

Second, I would suggest a more informative second level of help
message.  

A B C F I K L M N S T V W C-c C-w C-n C-w  Type C-h again for more help:

isn't really too informative.  Maybe

a-propos, k-ey sequence, f-unction, ..., or C-h again for more help:

might be better.

Silver.

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